Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-11-25
AN INTEREST IN LIFE.
How Existence Can Be Made Attractive
In Spite Of Disbursements


half the unhappiness in life come from
tho want of some active outside inter-
est--something to take the person oul
of himself; chiefly though out of her,
self; and give her things to think OF
| beyond her own sensations--th;ngs 10
sympathize with beyond her own vague
lisappointments and shadowy desires.
! The spiritual baroness of ogotism and
If idleness makes life very desert,
! where no green thing flourishos, which
! no dow from Heaven rcfreshes. nor
! living water rejoices. Self-centered and
! uninteres 'ed. life to such an ono is but
n poor entertainment for the senses
and the deeper emotions and affections
have no share therein. The order OF
the day, with all its necessary cHcum-
stances of food. and gradual wear
ing of the morning through the noon
TO evening. anil the sloep, which is
NY the elimination of tho lcthargy
of the waking hours is one long rom
of WEAKNESS and dissatisfaction. Like
whitehead boughs VIII CHI bear no roses,
not an hour has It's moment of dclig'lt.
not m action has its hope of j,y OF
fullillm' mt Of pleasure. The dun day
creeps slug yishly fro dawn to C &C.
and not n new thought has been
awakened nor new sensation aroused.
Marion in tho "Bfoated Grange was
not more dreary than the man or
woman who has no outside intorest.
and whose life is bound up in self; and
no prisoner ever hailed the free mir Of
Heaven with more rapturous gratiu lie
than would such an one il set in the
way 10 make that interest aud enlarge
hose oundaries For We must never
forget that many things which look
like faults, and pass und r the name
fnul $. nre in reality misfortunos-
The result OF conditions made for lis
and not by us. and not to BIO broken
~ such energy rs we possess.
~ this one word indeed lies the
heart of tho matter. With energy we
make an intcres for ourselves. in spite
f the poverty of our circum stances.
Without 1t. opportunities of rich en-
i,yment pass by unutilizcd, and we
ct slip all chances for bettering ola
fate. 1t Is misfortune to be born
one OF tho passive. the negative. I'M
energetic, who dyelc the worll with
The active and energetic. Most thin rs
II life that are worth having Mt all
have to be sought and pursued. if they
re to DO captured and held fast
Neither fortune nor pleasure knocks
'ersis;ently Mt any mans door, but
nch has to be Mt tho least looked for
mp and down tho street, and invited In
# II is desired to enter ain other.
But the uuonergetic takc no pains to
ind these radiant guests. If they do II OF
come unhitdcn they do not come at all;
and the flowers aid gems borne by the
,lnggish steam on its bosom nre left to
lrift into the great ocean of things now
imp ,ssible. because If tho want of en-
rgy to seize them ms they passed. The
emerge ic, on the contrary. nrc of those
who improve thor no ding. No mat
or how poor tho soil-how unpropi-
ious the surroundingS-thcy know
whence to gather rich material and
fertile seed for tho better harves,
ND tho heavier crop. ii
they nre of those whose circum-
,ia' ccs preclude the need of excr-
| ion, they make some extrancous in
crest for which they have to work and
| think, md in n manner sacrifice their
'omforts, and break N tho deadly
nonotony of their self-indulgcnce-
| hat monotony which kills the finer
nature when indulgcd in without n
break, and which makes tho very
misery of tho rich.
No matter what the interest so long
~ wo make one for ourselves. From
rt to religion, and from philanthropy
needle work. all is useful, If so no
fotmS arc purcr and nobler than
p;hers. Many people DO very bad art
paint pictures that ara carieatures;
ing in voices to which tin kctt'e s are
rs silver bells; write books, innocent
| the very elements of composition
but all the same they have an intero st
wh CHI has lifted them out OF The dead
dullncss of the past II they have
| % higher vocation, and their powers
ire not capable Of attaining greater
results, it is better for them TO use
them ON these over levels than not at
ii; and the world ben, fits. at |, n st in
Al fur that they are thereby rendered
lappier-with tie consequent result OF
greater happiness radiated on to
'thcrs- II hey are well endowed they
10 good work in itself. and the world
: tho richer by Tho achievement. -
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